The Barracks

Description:

Elizabeth Regan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own, and her husband is straining against his job in the police force. Moving between tragedy and savage comedy, desperation and joy, this is a novel of haunting power.

subjects: Breast,  Cancer,  Fiction,  Police,  Spouses,  Stepmothers,  Women and death,  Middle-aged women,  Fiction, romance, general,  Married women,  Social life and customs,  Manners and customs,  Catholics,  Terminally ill,  Married people,  Cancer in women,  Fiction in English,  Literature,  Translations into French,  18.05 English literature,  Married people, fiction,  Ireland, fiction,  Fiction, family life,  Fiction, psychological,  Country life

People: John McGahern (1934-2006)

Places: Ireland